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What is Xanadu?

The Xanadu Australia formal problem definition is:

We need a way for people to store information not as individual
"files" but as a connected literature. It must be possible to
create, access and manipulate this literature of richly formatted
and connected information cheaply, reliably and securely from
anywhere in the world. Documents must remain accessible
indefinitely, safe from any kind of loss, damage, modification,
censorship or removal except by the owner. It must be impossible
to falsify ownership or track individual readers of any document.

This system of literature (the "Xanadu Docuverse") must allow
people to create virtual copies ("transclusions") of any existing
collection of information in the system regardless of
ownership. In order to make this possible, the system must
guarantee that the owner of any information will be paid their
chosen royalties on any portions of their documents, no matter how
small, whenever and wherever they are used.